Karen Sillas

A visiting home health aide and recovering alcoholic, strives to rebuild her broken life, only to have it fall apart once again when she falls in love with her young, paraplegic patient then betrays her trust.

Trish and Deb Murdoch are in a rut. After 14 years together and raising two daughters, they find themselves in a mid life crisis where grief and attraction threaten their domestic nucleus.

Henry and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.

A compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant.

Three friends, Victor, Amy and David, reunite after 10 years and uncover one of the key, hidden reasons for the war in Iraq.

Sibling rivalry and other conflicts are revealed as one daughter, now a successful modern artist living in New York, returns to visit her Texas family.

A wealthy man races against time to save his kidnapped son whose abductor left him with a bomb set to detonate.

A black comedy revolving around the humiliating lengths that people will resort to in order to get by in an unstable financial world from applying for welfare to the compromise of personal ideals to all out robbery. The film follows four characters - two leftover punks from the 80s, a typical gray-suited businessman and a vegetarian idealist - in their desperate struggle to hold onto their respective stations in life. These deftly interwoven stories form a cautionary tale of how people deal with the search for quick cash. In desperate times, even good people turn to bad money.

A small town troublemaker, directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief engage in a battle of wills and wit.

Richie, a sneaker sole designer, and his cousin Evan, a brain surgeon, are spending this weekend with their girlfriends in Atlantic City. When one of them ends up with a $436,000 jackpot, sour grapes is what results. Even though Richie uses two quarters from Evan to win the progressive jackpot, he sees no connection with that and sharing the jackpot. This ignites a hilarious, runaway chain of even

A female FBI investigator takes over jurisdiction in Dear Lake, a small northern town just as a young boy is abducted. Her investigation leads to a bigger series of abductions and murders dating back over 20 years. Her investigation also brings her into a mutual attraction with the small-town police chief who shares her investigation.

A charming military man arranges his own disappearance and death in order to begin a new life with a woman who is completely deceived by his lies. Bored by his military career and secure lifestyle with his wife, Cindy, and two children, Dave Bay falls in love with Alyson and plots a new existence. This new, deceptive life includes bank robberies committed as a desperate means to support his new family and hide his past. Inspired by actual events.

An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?

Jackie and Michael are coworkers at a large law firm. They decide to meet at Jackie's for dinner one night.

In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks he might be in love with. Later incorporated into a feature film of the same name.

Maya, a New York artist and model, meets Joe, a drifter. They begin a passionate affair. On an impromptu trip to visit Joe's sister in the country, Joe's inner demons begin to surface.

함께 은행을 털던 애인과 친구가 자신을 배신하자, 빌은 인간에 대한 믿음을 상실하고 큰 환멸을 느낀다. 그의 동생 데니스는 자신의 아버지의 행방에만 관심이 있다. 그의 아버지 윌리엄 맥케이브는 다저스 야구단의 명유격수로 이름을 떨쳤고, 60년대에는 미 국방성에 폭탄테러를 가했던 무정부주의자이다. 처음에는 탐탁지 않게 생각했던 빌도 동생과 함께 아버지를 찾아 롱 아일랜드로 가는 여행길에 오른다. 할 하틀리의 출세작이자 대표작.

통제할 수 없는 운명과 부정할 수 없는 과거에 의해 만사가 결정된다고 생각하는 닉 카민스키(Nick Kaminsky: 케빈 앤더슨 분)의 엘더스타운 방문은 수수께끼같은 우연들의 연속인데 그 우연 모두가 닉을 욕정에서 빚어 지고 죽음으로 그늘진 운명으로 냉혹하게 내몬다. 표면상으로 그는 어머니의 임종을 지키려고 이곳에 온 것이지만, 어려서 친엄마가 누군지 모른 채 입양된 그는 어머니가 죽음을 맞이하는 시점에 어머니를 처음 만나게 되는 것이다. 대학 동료였던 폴 케슬러(Paul Kessler: 빌 풀만 분)와의 만남은 그가 이 도시를 방문한 초점을 다른 방향으로 바꾸는데. 닉은 철재골조 건축에 관한 수권의 책을 쓴 유명한 작가로 폴이 작업을 하는 랄스 백화점의 폭파에 관심을 갖게 된다. 랄슨 백화점은 철재골조 건축의 획기적 건물이었는데, 1953년에 그 도시의 전설로 남은 치정 살인사건이 일어난 후, 줄곧 판자로 둘러싸여 있었다. 그 건물의 파괴에 대한 닉의 흥미를 한층 자극하는 것은 폴의 아내 제인(Jane Kessler: 파멜라 기들리 분)이었다. 그들이 제인의 생일날 처음 만났을 때 그 둘은 즉각 서로에게 매료되는데, 수십년 동안 갖힌 그건물의 무시무시한 비밀과 환상에 대한 상호교감으로 함께 묶여진 것 같았다. 그의 어머니의 삶이 그 막바지에 다달하고, 랄슨 빌딩이 허물어질 때가 가까와짐에 따라 닉과제인의 강박관념은 자라나고, 그의 방문을 둘러싼 미스테리가 얽힌 실타래 사이로 풀려가고, 과거의 죄가 부활하며, 돌이킬 수 없는 마지막 운명을 향해 치닫는데.

폭력적이고 전제적인 홀아버지와 함께 사는 주인공 매튜는 전과기록도 있고, 회사에서 모니터를 던지고 관둘 만큼 사회 부적응자이지만 청소를 하지 않았다고 아버지가 때릴 때는 대항하지 못하는 인물이다. 매튜는 철학책을 읽고 술집에서 클래식을 들으며 오존층 파괴에 대해 목소리를 높이며, 아버지의 참전 기념품인 수류탄을 들고 다니면서 사회에 대한 불만을 토로하다 임신한 고등학생 마리아를 만나는데…. 두 사람의 희망 찾기를 다룬 이 영화로 할 하틀리는 국제적으로 알려지기 시작했다.

Selffunded Hal Hartley project shot on 16mm with a focus on a somewhat bizarre romance.

Hal Hartley's senior thesis film from SUNY-Purchase. A young man named Ned (Ricky Ludwig) attempts to leave his Long Island suburb, but is thwarted by a series of absurd obstacles.